Samus Aran in a fist fight: every matchup
“The Hunter” · Metroid · 1986 · 6′3″ (190 cm), 198 lb (90 kg)
Galactic bounty hunter raised by the bird-like Chozo, who wipes out Metroids for a living. Nintendo lists 190 cm and 90 kg; fans still argue whether that includes the Power Suit.
The crowd picks Samus in 100% of votes (1 of 1).
Did you know?
- The first Metroid’s manual called her “he”. Only players who beat the game fast enough saw her take off her helmet.
- Metroid was inspired by the film Alien, and her enemy Ridley is named after its director, Ridley Scott.
- Her surname, Aran, is said to come from the football star Pelé, whose real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento.
- The Morph Ball was created partly because making her crawl looked too hard to animate.
- She was raised by the bird-like Chozo, and has some Chozo DNA.
- Her gunship is shaped a lot like her helmet.
- Without her armour she wears a Zero Suit. Zero Suit Samus first fought in Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008), then became her own fighter in 2014.
- Metroid Dread (2021) was the first new side-scrolling Metroid in 19 years.
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond came out in December 2025, more than 18 years after Metroid Prime 3.
- She is often named as one of the first women to star in a video game.
Every fight (34)
- Samus Aran vs Idi Amin · The AI: Amin by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Napoléon Bonaparte · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Fidel Castro · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Master Chief · The AI: Master Chief by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Chun-Li · The AI: Chun-Li by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Winston Churchill · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Ulysses S. Grant · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Adolf Hitler · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Hitmonchan · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Saddam Hussein · The AI: Samus by Decision
- Samus Aran vs Genghis Khan · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Kirby · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Knuckles · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Abraham Lincoln · The AI: Samus by DQ
- Samus Aran vs Little Mac · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Machamp · The AI: Machamp by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Mario · The AI: Samus by DQ
- Samus Aran vs Audie Murphy · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Miyamoto Musashi · The AI: Samus by Decision
- Samus Aran vs Benito Mussolini · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Horatio Nelson · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Barack Obama · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs George S. Patton · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Pikachu · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Theodore Roosevelt · The AI: Samus by DQ
- Samus Aran vs Ryu · The AI: Ryu by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Solid Snake · The AI: Samus by DQ
- Samus Aran vs Snorlax · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Sonic · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Joseph Stalin · The AI: Samus by DQ
- Samus Aran vs Alexander the Great · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs George Washington · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Yoshi · The AI: Samus by TKO
- Samus Aran vs Zangief · The AI: Zangief by TKO